Computational fluid dynamics for chemical reactor engineering

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1569-1594

  Harris, C K ^a   Roekaerts, D ^a,b   Rosendal, F J J ^a   Buitendijk, F G J ^a   Daskopoulos, Ph ^a   Vreenegoor, A J N ^a   Wang, H ^a  

^a SHELL RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL REACTORS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; RHEOLOGY; TURBULENCE;

BAFFLED STIRRED TANK REACTORS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030141821     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00021-8     Document Type: Article

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